This test has been around for a long time and I'm sure that there are many of us that have seen it before. If so, please don't divulge where it came from for a few days so everyone that hasn't seen it has a chance to give it a whirl.

I saw this for the first time today and gave it a go. Took 15 minutes. It has been said that a great percent of the population can not answer it correctly. Lets prove them wrong.

Give it a try. If you get an answer please don't post it. Just post how lnog it took you to solve it. I'll post the answer Sunday evening if I can remember. I'm getting old ya know. If I forget ya'll are welcome to post the answer after say 7pm EST Sunday 12/6/09.

Thanks for playing along.

Here's the test:

There's only one solution for this problem.

There are 5 houses of 5 different colors.
In each house lives a person of a different nationality.
Those 5 people drink different drinks, smoke cigarettes of a different brand and have a different pet.
None of them has the same pet, smokes the same cigarette or drinks the same drink.
Question: Who has the fish?

Hints:

The englishman lives in the red house.
The swedish has a dog as a pet.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is at the left side of the white one.
The person who lives at the green house drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall raises birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man that lives in the house that is in the middle drinks milk.
The norwegian lives in the first house.
The man that smokes Blends lives next to the one that has cats.
The man that raises horses lives next to the one that smokes Dunhill.
The man that smokes Bluemaster drinks beer.
The german smokes Prince.
The norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man that smokes Blends is neighbour of the one that drinks water.

Do give it a go before looking for the answer somewhere else.

Good luck!!